NEPOTISM
By, Ragavaishnavi
Nepotism is based on favouritism granted to relatives in various fields, including business, politics, entertainment, sports, religion and other activities. The influence of nepotism is arising while killing the talents of many people around us.
Nepotism, favouritism and cronyism, which can be found in all areas of todays business world, have become very regular conduct. The granting of privileges to certain individuals is an incredibly upsetting circumstance to the associations representatives and the absence of trust emerging under such conditions negatively influence job satisfaction, authoritative reliability, and individual execution, and can block the inner control framework in the auditing procedure.
Recently, on June 14 this year, the demise of a popular actor(Sushant Singh Rajput) from the bollywood industry driven the entire film industry to extreme pressure and shock. According to the public and media, the actor committed suicide due to nepotism factors and cheap bollywood politics by the industry’s dominators known as Movie mafias. The mainstream production house has treated the actor as an outsider for not having a godfather in bollywood. They snatched all of his 7 upcoming movies and gave it to star kids who believe to be the pride of the bollywood industry in the future.
Film-making is, of course, not a democracy. There’s a case to be made that artists should be allowed to create their work as they see fit. This is true, yet other inequalities in film are now being met with initiatives to correct, for instance, gender and racial disparities. This is right, because such moves address fundamental inequalities. But the fact that children of rich actors never seem to have trouble finding work also propagates systemic inequality. The phenomenon is so widespread that we don’t even question the fact that the children of, for instance, Melanie Griffith and Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, Bono, Will Smith and Johnny Depp are now becoming stars.
Nepotism exist in every business but the politics in film industries are highlighted due to phenomenal suicide cases of talents. These nepotism factors drag them down to a severe depression knowing their passions are no longer valued. The systemic nature of nepotism, as with industrial racism and sexism, requires asking tough questions of producers and creators. In so doing we may end up with an industry that is more open to recognising and paying talent fairly and reflecting a diverse, complex society.
